Trying To Define a No-Go Zone

 I grew up in the rural south in the 1960s/1970.  If you had approached me to define a no-go area....I mostly would have responded....'such-and-such area near the creek, where copperheads roam'.

The first time I ever heard the no-go chatter?  Around 1980....when 'Sarge' wanted us to know a certain bar or two in the Tacoma area were on the forbidden-list of the base.  

In the 1990s, I was sent to a training school in Kansas City, and the hotel folks gave me a nice map of the region.  I would be there for two weeks, and wanted some restaurant ideas.  The kind lady at the desk circled five or six places for great food....then took the red marker to indicate three regions to avoid.  Yes, she used the term 'no-go'.  

I asked what the issue was, and the response....'drugs, crime, assault, etc'.

By the mid-1990s, I came to realize in the Frankfurt area of Germany....an area or two had become a no-go zone.....mostly over hard drugs.

Over the next two decades, I came to realize the same label being applied to Hamburg, Berlin, Amsterdam, Prague, etc. 

When you travel these days....people use the term a good bit.

When I go back to Alabama?  Well....yeah, the term has started to pop-up occasionally.  Just about the entire region around Birmingham (except the airport) is a no-go area now.

All of this happening in one single generation.....that's the hard part to accept.

What happens over the next twenty years?  That's the thing I tend to ponder upon.  To suggest I need to carry a pistol when I go to get an ice cream, or pick up a case of beer?  How far will this go?

Interesting Quote

 "As of this morning every single “pregnant person” in 5500 years of recorded human history was a biological woman."

-- Marco Rubio

Begs to this whole discussion going on....where political folks can't define a woman, and it starts to sound like they are mentally challenged (we have other terms in the south but this probably is more appropriate).

Q-and-A

 1.  What's the mid-terms really about?

Four things: gasoline cost, recession, Democrats unable to define over 20 things in a public forum, and abortion.  Here's the chief problem....except for abortion...it's the worst position for the Democratic Party in thirty-odd years.

2.  How are Joe and Jill Biden getting all of these screwed-up speech scripts?

Maybe just plain bad luck....but you have to wonder about the people who support the couple in the White House and their resumes.  Maybe these folks aren't that qualified for the work required.

3.  Explaining this 10-year old rape/abortion thing in Ohio?

Well....a illegal alien raped a 10-year old Ohio girl.  Local authorities did everything possible not to report this up to the state AG or state authorities.  Someone on President Biden's team heard about half the story, and it was appropriate for the abortion chatter....not grasping it was an illegal alien story.

4.  How long will this Twitter legal case drag on?

Well....if you count appeals, and eventually getting to the Supreme Court....probably four years. Most of the Twitter board will have left and gone into some hiding situation in Costa Rica by that point.